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KPOP Korral

If you are an ESL teacher like me, then there is a really easy and fun way to impress your students and coworkers. Being able to recognize a few songs and names in the Korean pop music scene will earn you serious points with your students.

KPOP can be nauseatingly cute and over the top at times, but it really is the religion of the younger generation in Korea. It is also a growing and important cultural export as KPOP groups find more effective ways to penetrate music market shares in China, Japan, and the United States.

At least knowing some of the most popular songs and groups is just as important to assimilating in Korea as is learning some basic Korean phrases. I will be posting one new video a week so as to let it slowly digest for people.

Define Waygook (외국)

A waygookin (외국인) is any person not of Korean ancestry. Waygook (외국) simply means "foreign". Koreans call people of non Korean ancestry "waygookin". Foreigners shorten the term to "waygook". This blog is from the perspective of a Western native-English speaking waygook.